Publications

Educators

September 2002 (Revised August 2014)
Case

Cardinal Health (A): The Medicine Shoppe Acquisition

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Miguel Abecasis and Brenda Cheng

Robert Walter, the founder and CEO of Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical distributor, is contemplating the purchase of Medicine Shoppe, a chain of apothecaries. The purchase might be construed as competition against his own drugstore customers. But one of its many... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Distribution Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry

Educators

1980
Book

Competition in an Open Economy: A Model Applied to Canada

By: R. E. Caves, M. E. Porter and A. M. Spence

Keywords: Competition; Business Model; Canada

April 2025
Case

Sharon Goldberg and BastionZero

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, James Barnett and Maxim Pike Harrell

In December 2023, BastionZero co-founder and CEO Sharon Goldberg considered her startup’s future. Established in 2017 as a blockchain company focused on improving the security of cryptocurrency trading, in March 2020 the VC-backed startup shifted focus to a new... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurial Finance; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Business Exit or Shutdown

Educators

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Sep 2006
News

Charting the Year Ahead

succession, competing for volunteers’ and members’ scarce time, and maintaining their distinctive connection to the School. Fifty club leaders convened at HBS in June at the annual Clubs Officers Leadership Conference and offered insightful input to focus the board’s... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Feb 2001
News

Books

Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In her new book Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter declares that soon... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Apr 2000
News

Porter's Paradox

prosperity depends on innovation." On Competition, a collection of Porter's seminal Harvard Business Review articles about competitive advantage -- which also includes two new articles on clusters and competition and global competitive... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Reimagining China and India

the constraints of each country and how to link the two in “corporate symbiosis,” something few have yet to master, says Khanna. Do multinationals lack the knowledge about China and India they need to do business there? Absolutely. But... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Porter Appointed to University Professorship

His books can be found on the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

28 Jan 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song; Retail; Real Estate

November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: ENI

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe

November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Royal Dutch/Shell Group

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe

November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Imperial Chemical Industries, P.L.C.

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe

October 2022
Supplement

Framebridge (B): A New Approach

By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani

In 2022, after revamping operations and expanding retail stores, Framebridge founder and CEO Susan Tynan is optimistic for the future but realizes changing market dynamics. New competitors are entering the market, and margin pressures remained. This case is part two of... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Products Industry; United States; District of Columbia; Kentucky

Profile

Jack Perkowski

that is assisting global companies with their China strategies and helping Chinese companies create their own global footprints. “Even though China is now the second-largest economy in the world, it’s very embryonic,” he says. “The reason... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing

November 2000 (Revised December 2001)
Case

iSteelAsia (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko

The chairman of a Hong Kong-based steel distributor starts an online Asian steel trading portal and contemplates different paths to profitability and growth. Barriers include industrial culture, weakened markets in the spring of 2000, and vulnerability to takeover by... View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Distribution Channels; Business Growth and Maturation; Horizontal Integration; Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Steel Industry; Hong Kong